Don Natvig, Professor   Department of Biology The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 dnatvig@unm.edu   Ph.D. (Botany), University of California, Berkeley 1981 Research Interests: Fungal genetics. Evolutionary molecular biology

Recent Publications

Merino, S., M.A. Nelson, D. Jacobson and D.O. Natvig. 1996. Pseudohomothallism and evolution of the mating-type chromosome in Neurospora tetrasperma.Genetics 143:789-799.

Natvig, D.O., K. Sylvester, W.D. Dvorachek, Jr., and J. L. Baldwin. 1996. Superoxide dismutases and catalases. In: The Mycota, Vol. III: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, R. Brambl and G. Marzluf (eds), Springer-Verlag. Pp. 191-209.

Skupski, M.P., D.A. Jackson and D.O. Natvig. 1997. Phylogenetic analysis of heterothallic Neurospora species. Fungal Genetics and Biology 21:153-162.

Nelson, M.A., S. Kang, E. L. Braun, M.E. Crawford, P.L. Dolan, P.M. Leonard, J. Mitchell, A. M. Armijo, L. Bean, E. Blueyes, T. Cushing, A. Errett, M. Fleharty, M. Gorman, K. Judson, R. Miller, J. Ortega, I. Pavlova, J. Perea, S. Todisco, R. Trujillo, J. Valentine, A. Wells, M. Werner-Washburne, S. Yazzie and D. O. Natvig. 1997. Expressed sequences from conidial, mycelial and sexual stages of Neurospora crassa. Fungal Genetics and Biology 21:348-363.

Natvig, D.O. and G. May. 1997. Fungal evolution and speciation. J. Genetics 75:441-552.

Nelson, M. A., and Natvig, D. O. 1998. Neurospora crassa chromosome walks. Fungal Genet. Newsl. 45:32-33.

Nelson, M. A., Crawford, M. E., and Natvig, D. O. 1998. Restriction polymorphism maps of Neurospora crassa: 1998 update. Fungal Genet. Newsl. 45:44-54.

Braun, E.L., S. Kang, M.A. Nelson and D.O. Natvig. 1998. Identification of the first fungal annexin: Analysis of annexin gene duplications and implications for eukaryotic evolution.  J. Mol. Evol. 47:531-543.

Bieszke, J.A., E.L. Braun, L.E. Bean, S. Kang, D.O. Natvig, and K.A. Borkovich. 1999. The nop-1 gene of Neurospora crassa encodes a seven-helix transmembrane retinal-binding protein homologous to archaeal rhodopsins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96:8034-8038

Gallegos, A., D.J. Jacobson, N.B. Raju, M.P. Skupski and D.O. Natvig.  2000. Suppressed recombination and a pairing anomaly on the mating-type chromosome of Neurospora tetrasperma.  Genetics 154: 623-633 (www.genetics.org).

Braun, E.L., A.L. Halpern, M.A. Nelson and D.O. Natvig.  2000.  Large scale comparison of fungal sequence information:  Mechanisms of innovation in Neurospora crassa and gene loss in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.  Genome Res. 10: 416-430.

Powell, A.J., D.J. Jacobson and D.O. Natvig.  2001.  Allelic diversity at the het-c locus in Neurospora tetrasperma confirms outcrossing in nature and reveals an evolutionary dilemma for pseudohomothallic ascomycetes.  J. Mol. Evol. 52:94-102.

Bean, L.E., W.H. Dvorachek, Jr., E.L. Braun, A. Errett, G.S. Saenz, M. D. Giles, M. Werner-Washburne, M.A. Nelson, and D.O. Natvig.  2001.  Analysis of the pdx-1 (snz-1/sno-1) region of the Neurospora crassa genome: correlation of pyridoxine-requiring phenotypes with mutations in two structural genes.  Genetics 157:1067-1075.

Saenz, G.S.,  J.G. Stam, D.J. Jacobson  and D.O. Natvig.  2001.  Heteroallelism at the het-c locus contributes to sexual dysfunction in outcrossed strains of Neurospora tetrasperma. Fungal Genetics and Biology 34:123-129.

Dvorachek, W.H., Jr., P.L. Dolan, M.A. Nelson and D.O. Natvig.  2001.  A provisional UniGene clone set based on ESTs from Neurospora crassa.  Fungal Genet. Newsl. 48:12.

Michan, S., F. Lledias, J.D. Baldwin, D.O. Natvig and W. Hansberg.  2002.  Regulation and oxidation of two large monofunctional catalases. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 33:521-532.

Galagan, J., S.E. Calvo, K. Borkovich, E.U. Selker, N. Read, W. FitzHugh, L.-J. Ma, S. Smirnov, S. Purcell, B. Rehman, T. Elkins, R. Engels, S. Wang, C.B. Nielsen, J. Butler, D. Jaffe, M. Endrizzi, A. Roy, D. Qui, P. Ianakiev, D. Bell-Pedersen, E.L. Braun, D. Greenberg, G. Jedd, J. Kinsey, G.O. Kothe, E. Marcotte, W. Mewes, M.A. Nelson, U. Schulte, C.P. Selitrennikoff, C. Staben, M. Werner-Washburne, A. Zelter, K. Foley, J. Naylor, N. Stange-Thomann, R. Barrett, S. Gnerre, M. Kamal, M. Kamvysselis, D. Catcheside, R.L. Metzenberg, D.D. Perkins, S. Kroken, W. Li , J. A. Berglund, J. Dunlap, L. Glass, M.J. Orbach, M. Plamann, A. Radford, S. Seiler, R. Voelker, O. Yarden, S.A. Osmani, C.P.C. DeSouza, R.J. Pratt, L.A. Alex, R. Aramayo, D. Ebbole, M. Freitag, G. Mannhaupt, D.O. Natvig, I. Paulsen, M.S. Sachs, E.S. Lander, C. Nusbaum & B. Birren.  2003.  The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Nature 422:859 - 868.

Powell, A.J., D.J. Jacobson, L. Salter and D.O. Natvig.  2003.  Variation among natural isolates of Neurospora on small spatial scales.  Mycologia 95: 809-819.

Northup, D.E., S.M. Barns, L.E. Yu, C.A. Connolly, D.O. Natvig and C.N. Dahm.  2003.  Diverse microbial communities inhabiting ferromanganese deposits in Lechuguilla and Spider caves.  Environmental Microbiology 5:1071-1086.

Jacobson, D.J., A.J. Powell, J.R. Dettman, G.S. Saenz, M.M. Barton,  M.D. Hiltz, W.H. Dvorachek, Jr., N.L. Glass, J.W. Taylor, and D.O. Natvig. Neurospora in temperate forests of western North America. Mycologia, in press.

Braun, E.L., D.O. Natvig, M. Werner-Washburne, M.A. Nelson. Genomics in Neurospora crassa: from one-gene-one-enzyme to 10,000 genes. Applied Mycology and Biotechnology, Vol. 4, in press.